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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2666)	9/24/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

ZP Each member could maintain several separate lists and then make them available to the membership As far as specific information retrieval goes this would be very very good. There is somuch info here but because of the linear narrative form of SI much time is wasted, except for entertainment value ie flame wars, looking for specif sub-interests within threads. This is exactly what you've done with the auxillary, which should serve as a good prototype. It really is too much to ask of you to spend the rest of your life filing stuff for us for free.... Isn't it? <lol> More on KOT tomorrow or the week end. That'd be great..... Clarence

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2666)	9/25/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>some kind of code system on posts ... >>I have been thinking the same thing. Give it up, ZP. It won't work. I've been participating in electronic communication confluences (email, chats, threads, company groups, etc, etc, et fili et zion, socius popliusque Romanus, and more) for 15 years now, and humans just don't do it. I've tried it in many c contexts, from project teams to email interest groups. I've observed it in many others. I used to lose heart, but now I recognize that it is strength. I don't think people aren't willing to try to help with organizing interests. I have observed, though, that enthusiasm/interest/concerns or whatever other motives override these things. Besides, any organization implies boxing in expression, and people don't conform to that when expressing opinions. If I want to gripe about NT, am I talking about operating systems or am I talking about Microsoft or am I talking about error recovery? Probably I'm talking about all three and several other categories. Whoo, this is enough for one night. But what would you file this message under? Dumbo, probably. <G> Spots